The Kansas City Chiefs’ defeat of the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in Sunday’s Super Bowl LVII is on pace to become the third-most-watched television show in history, with an estimated 113 million people watching, according to preliminary numbers released Monday. Apple Music’s halftime show starring Rihanna was the second-most-watched halftime show in Super Bowl history.
ESPN:
The 2015 game between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks on NBC holds the record at 114,442,000 viewers (not including streaming), followed by Super Bowl LI in 2017 on Fox between Atlanta and New England (113,668,000).
According to Adobe Analytics, this year’s digital feed averaged a Super Bowl-record 7 million streams, an 18% increase over last year (6 million) and more than double Fox’s last Super Bowl in 2020 (3.4 million).
It was the third straight year the streaming average has surpassed 5 million. The first Super Bowl to be streamed, in 2012, averaged 346,000.
Rihanna’s halftime show averaged 118.7 million viewers, making it the second-most-watched show in Super Bowl history. Katy Perry’s 2015 performance holds the top mark at 121 million.
Unsurprisingly, Kansas City and Philadelphia were the two highest-ranked markets. Kansas City led the way with a 52.0 rating and 87 share followed by Philadelphia’s 46.3/77.
The rating is the percentage of television households tuned in. The share refers to a percentage of the TV-watching audience viewing a particular program at the time.
MacDailyNews Take: Huge success for Apple Music!
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Ahhh haaaa. Musta been the hand rubbing her crotch and smelling it that drew the watchership. Loved it so much I never even watched it. Woke maggot.
I think she was checking to see if her water had broken. You d1ck.
Higher ratings than the actual game. Boo hoo Big Boy.
Lucifer is here; “The Truth” is anything but the truth. Another member of the torture squad in a previous life in the Soviet Union. Nice comment—”YOU dick!”
Now it looks like your water WokeBroke.
When is lip syncing musical performance?
Really loved the dance troupe wearing faux hazmat suits. Nice touch to remind us of cv hogwash.
It was to rub our faces in what’s happening in east Palestine and the other derailments in TX and SC. They are literal satanists
I’m the first to admit I don’t know the exact reasons for them using such costumes, but I do believe they were used to further hidden agendas–all part of the culture creation industry.
I thought that was in case her water broke….
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I have never been a fan of that style of music. It’s all the same base rhythms and beats, with very little difference between all the pop singers. They don’t play instruments, they all sing the same way, and the music is flat and electronic. They could all be singing blah, blah, blah, and it would sound the same. Chris Stapleton stole the show in my opinion. His voice, breath control, and tempo were amazing.